3.10.2008

The Count of Monte Cristo



Chateu D'if! your walls, your dung filled floors, your gloomy surroundings, your hopeless enclaves and your terrible wardens! Two nights in your bossom and one is sure to loose his senses! You captured and imprisoned for three years and a decade! How cruel? how inhuman? In the end, a priest and a mantra: GOD WILL GIVE ME JUSTICE overcame. Now tell me, where lies your power? where lies your grip?






Monsieur Morrell is a very fine gentleman and an excellent portrait of the exemplary employer.













Edmund's determination carries him through hardships that pay off in the end. He's resolute, the kind whose kindness is larger than life. He survived betrayal, he survived the bitterness and envy of failures like Danglar and Fernand. He survived the Chateu D'if!








Fernand is driven by selfish desires and the love for a woman who could never be his to betray and kill the soul of a beloved friend. He is the kind who will kill for selfish interests regardless of the consequences.








GOD WILL GIVE ME JUSTICE!












A tutor among tutors!













Dangle, dangle Danglar!












'...where is he? where is Edmund?...'
This particular phrase captures for me, the depth of love this lady had for Edmund.

3.07.2008

Thinking creatively


An idea is nothing more or less than a new combination of old elements
-
Webb Young

An idea is delicate, it can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man’s brow.
- Charles Brower

We cannot open ourselves to new insights without endangering the security of our prior assumptions. We cannot propose new ideas without risking disapproval or rejection.
-
Robert Grudin